.....aaaand right as I was rejoicing over my military victory over the titan, a 6-goblin ambush shows up and absolutely destroys me. Partially because half of my moron civiians decided it would be a good time to get a drink out of the river (lost a legendary gem setter, the oaf), and partially because I had still forgotten to set up traps. Such is life, I guess. NEW FORT!

I collapsed my entrance on a bronze collosus.

 

Sad. I was hoping I wouldn't need to use that, but 5 marksdwarves firing for ten minutes seemed to have little effect, and my ballistae didn't do much either.

There might be a glitch that the bronze collosi can't die, because they are already "nonliving."

Causing a cave in on a creature kills it, period.

 

Works with greater demons, regular demons, megabeasts, anything.

 

If you collapse a roof on something, it dies.

Better...more reusable...option is to dig a big hole(20 Z levels), cover it with hatches and open it...if it doesn't kill it, it will make sure it can't attack you easily.

The way I set up my fortress, I can't do that without using like 20 mechanisms and digging through 3 different stockpiles.

 

Besides, the roof I caved in was artificial, so it takes me 5-10 minutes to recreate it.

Nice.

If I was doing that I would have a masterpiece engraved roof.

I'm sure enemies would love to have their final sight be an exceptionally worked image of a rendition of a rendition of a piece of cheese :rolleyes:

 

In fact, I might just do that. Thanks for the idea.

I collapsed my entrance on a bronze collosus.

 

Sad. I was hoping I wouldn't need to use that, but 5 marksdwarves firing for ten minutes seemed to have little effect, and my ballistae didn't do much either.

There might be a glitch that the bronze collosi can't die, because they are already "nonliving."

There are only five known methods to kill a Bronze Colossus -

 

1) Engulf it in Magma.

2) Cause a cave-in on it's head.

3) Blast it with copious amounts of Dragonfire.

4) Send in lots of hammer/mace dwarves and pray.

5) Get an adventurer to throw a Fluffy Wambler at it's head.

Sword dwarves can actually kill them, with a bit of luck. Decapitation will destroy them as well.

Actually, adamantine weapons would be pretty bad, since slashing attacks don't do much. You'd be better off with steel warhammers or maces, since adamantine crushing weapons suck. Copper is better than adamantine for maces and hammers.

 

Some of my nobles had an "Unfortunate accident" because they made impossible mandates.

threw them into their own ppols and had the cleaners pick up the remains?

This game doesn't like me... The first world I generated was a chain of islands, most of which were evil, haunted or had no vegetation. I tried for another world, which is moving along at a pretty 2 years a minute :(. At this rate, I may just get to play when they release the next version :wall:

Ouch... Well, keep at it. It's a very rewarding game once you get into it.

My third world finally worked out. My fort right now is pretty awful because my miners go for a drink after every 10 squares they dig, but I got a pretty good location.

My miners are officially morons. 2 of them got hurt and 1 (a legendary, I might add) got killed somehow while digging a pit for me to drop medical "volunteers" down. The irony is sickening.

 

My doctor dwarf is getting lots of training though.... so no complaints here. Except from the moron who got himself killed. Looks like he gets to go in the "unpolished mausoleum." which is also the draining/evaporation area for my goblin drowning cage.

Eh, no worries Pie, I'm sure the constant flow of water will polish it nicely. The blood might even dye the walls a nice, festive red!

I broke into a cavern, which means tower cap and fungiwood will start growing everywhere, meaning I can safely seal myself off from the surface in a few years.

 

In the process of digging out two massive halls to free space for the mushroom trees to grow.

Eh, no worries Pie, I'm sure the constant flow of water will polish it nicely. The blood might even dye the walls a nice, festive red!

You'd be surprised. I've seen 1 whole goblin show up this entire map; and he ran away after being spotted by my war dogs. Stupid snatchers are stupid.

Man, elves can be pretty tough. I should stop underestimating them.

 

That said, dwarves can be tougher, and far more cruel.

 

My axelord literally tore an elves arms off, then started hitting him in the feet until he died of blood loss (Which took a surprising amount of time...)

Combat reports in this game are epic.

ross, promote that dwarf to torture master. a person of his abilities should not be used for just killing things!

Funny thing is, both of his hands were broken. I didn't notice, now he's in hospital.

 

This dwarf is brilliant. He continued beating an elf to death with an artifact Star Ruby axe even with two broken hands.

 

He's so going to be the captain of the new squad.

name them the demon axers. if the leader can do that with broken hands, imagine what he could do.. with fixed hands..

I have one dwarf that I designated to be a nurse...

 

She then promptly began moving stuff into stockpiles like a hauler would. I turned off the hauling labors, and she went to go party while my miners starved.

 

That dwarf is now designated in the "suicide squad" - designed to provide medical experience for the doctors and make enemies run out of ammunition.